Assignment 1: Electronic Surveillance of Employees Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Strayer University. January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy has become an extremely important part of American culture. Privacy is freedom from unsanctioned intrusion (American Heritage Dictionary). It is an implied right based on the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments of the Constitution (August, et al., 2001). Employees
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1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Let’s start off with what are some employee rights in the workplace. Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace have brought two opposing points of view to the forefront for employers. When dealing with privacy issues in workplace situations, employers are duty bound to maintain an environment that is not hostile to workers. “The courts have passed laws concerning race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, gender
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Workplace Surveillance Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees can be monitored through telephones, computers, the internet, voicemail, telephone conversations, instant message and surveillance. The employee will want to pay close attention to the company policy on privacy and electronic usage as much of these items are unregulated as stated on the privacyrights.org website. Your employer can listen, read and monitor most of your workplace
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Professor Michael Hall Law, Ethic, and Corporate Governance- LEG 500 November 1, 2011 Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. You may think your United States employee rights authorize you to have a privacy workplace. People are wrong because, according to workplace privacy studies, the odds were good that your employer was monitoring all your internet actions, including your web pages and chat
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Week 3 Assignment # 1 LEG 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance By Anthony McKenzie Presented to Prof. Moses Cowan February, 16, 2012 1) Explain where an
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Assignment One 1 Abstract Many employers recognize that need for a specific policies regarding surveillance or monitoring in the workplace. The primary purpose of such policies is to eliminate any expectation of privacy on the part of an employee utilizing company technologies or property for personal use. However, even when an employer has a policy, it is nonetheless common for employers to tolerate some degree of private usage by employees. This is one dilemma for employers and the main
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1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. When it comes to employment, many employee privacy rights are granted by specific laws, rules, and/or regulations. For example, there are laws that create a right to privacy in employee personnel records, the use and maintenance of employee social security numbers, employee medical information, background screenings, and the like. But what about cases in which there is no specific statute or
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees LEG500 – Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Instructor: Dr. C. William Dean Hasan Cayli Strayer University Abstract Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. In the office workplace there are typically two types of workspaces, an open area, in which there are several desks and where conversations can be overhead, or an enclosed office, in which—when the door is closed—conversations cannot be heard and where
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